An American aid worker stricken with Ebola continues to improve.
The National Institutes of Health reported Tuesday that the healthcare worker’s condition has improved from fair to good condition. However, it is not clear when the unidentified patient may be discharged or how long he or she will remain in treatment at NIH’s Bethesda, Md., campus.
The aid worker was doing volunteer work in Sierra Leone when the worker contracted the virus.
Another 15 workers who had contact with the patient were evacuated from West Africa and are being monitored for the disease. So far no other cases have been reported, and four patients being monitored in Nebraska have been discharged.
The Ebola outbreak has infected more than 23,000 people and killed nearly 10,000, a majority of which in the West African countries Sierra Leone, Liberia and New Guinea.
